MGx - Musings, Essays & Ballads

Hiring the new police chief is of great importance to everyone so naturally there was almost no members of the public attending the interviews yesterday at City Hall. Dian and I as well as Jean Ivey from the paper tried to catch each interview as they were staggered throughout the day. Two other […]

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Last evening, I attended a meeting along with commissioner elect, Bob Main. Bob gave us a little primer on enterprise zones and urban renewal districts and it may be hard to quantify any real benefit to the community that pays taxes to support these areas. Apparently, when a business or venture opens in […]

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The Guard has an article up regarding the commissioner race. Mostly, I am putting it up because they quoted me, not exactly correctly but close enough I guess.
Coquille resident Mary Geddry, who campaigned against Griffith, said voters in Coos County were ready for a change. “Many feel he was just pigheaded, that he wouldn’t […]

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The times they are a changin’ and voters apparently no longer satisfied with business as usual ousted incumbent John Griffith.
One down and two to go, unless, Main can bring some badly needed attitudinal change at the county commission office. If not, we will need to find and support qualified candidates for the […]

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At a League of Women Voters campaign forum last night in Coos Bay it appears that John Griffith, running for reelection in the county commissioners race, misspoke. When asked about their largest donors, Griffith listed Seneca Timbers at $1,000 when in fact his largest donor is District 1 House of Representatives incumbant candidate, Wayne […]

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As I have steadfastly refused to join a political party since 1992 I don’t much care if a candidate is republican or democrat. Consequently I didn’t much care that Bob Main was a republican as long as he was willing to work with disparate opinions and groups unlike the present commissioner, John Griffith. […]

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